Double-lobed warrior vessel ·  Peru, northern coast, Viru · ID: 3038636

Description

light beige fired clay, pale reddish and black paint, facial scarifications, drilled holes and narrow slits in the head (whistling function), nearly entirely coated with a geometrical pattern of wavy lines and dots, dam.;
colour was applied using an open oven, varying the intensity of the pale reddish colour by adding crushed shell. The black colour of the surface - the “negative”- was the product of a second baking and “smoking”. Could have been used as whistle which may have served an incantatory function.

Comparing literature

Musée du Petit Palais (ed.), Peru, Art from the Chavin to the Incas, Paris 2006, p. 36 f.